UNITED STATES
National Catholic Reporter
by John L Allen Jr on Jun. 18, 2012 NCR Today
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), the main umbrella group for leaders of women’s religious orders in the United States, today released a statement on a June 12 meeting in Rome between LCWR representatives and officials of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, led by American Cardinal William Levada.
The statement describes the meeting as “open” but “difficult because of the differing perspectives the CDF officials and the LCWR representatives hold.”
The meeting was requested by LCWR officials in the wake of an April 18 doctrinal assessment from the doctrinal congregation accusing LCWR of “serious doctrinal problems” on issues such as the ordination of women to the priesthood, same-sex marriage, and the inroads of “radical feminism.”
The LCWR statement follows.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 18, 2012
[Silver Spring, MD] The board members of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) held a special session on Friday night, June 15, where they were briefed by conference president Sister Pat Farrell, OSF and executive director Sister Janet Mock, CSJ on their June 12 meeting in Rome with officials of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF). The LCWR leaders had requested the meeting at the Vatican to address their concerns about the doctrinal assessment report of LCWR conducted by CDF and released on April 18.
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